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Author | : Colson Whitehead |
Publisher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2018-01-30 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0345804325 |
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • "An American masterpiece" (NPR) that chronicles a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. • The basis for the acclaimed original Amazon Prime Video series directed by Barry Jenkins. Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. An outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is on the cusp of womanhood—where greater pain awaits. And so when Caesar, a slave who has recently arrived from Virginia, urges her to join him on the Underground Railroad, she seizes the opportunity and escapes with him. In Colson Whitehead's ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor: engineers and conductors operate a secret network of actual tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Cora embarks on a harrowing flight from one state to the next, encountering, like Gulliver, strange yet familiar iterations of her own world at each stop. As Whitehead brilliantly re-creates the terrors of the antebellum era, he weaves in the saga of our nation, from the brutal abduction of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. The Underground Railroad is both the gripping tale of one woman's will to escape the horrors of bondage—and a powerful meditation on the history we all share. Look for Colson Whitehead’s new novel, Crook Manifesto, coming soon!
Author | : Eber M. Pettit |
Publisher | : Read Books Ltd |
Total Pages | : 131 |
Release | : 2022-02-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1528793048 |
Eber M. Pettit (1802–1885) was an American philanthropist who famously operated an Underground Railroad station in Versailles, NY. The Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes and safe houses created in the United States during the early to the mid-19th century for use by African American slaves in order to escape into free states or Canada. This volume contains a first-hand account of Pettit's involvement with the Underground Railroad and the heroic actions taken by him and others to help emancipate hundreds of African-American slaves. Highly recommended for those with an interest in African-American history and the Underground Railroad in particular. Read & Co. History are proudly republishing this fascinating document in a brand new edition, complete with an introductory chapter from "The New Student's Reference Work" (1914).
Author | : Yona Zeldis McDonough |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 129 |
Release | : 2013-12-26 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0448467127 |
No one knows where the term Underground Railroad came from--there were no trains or tracks, only "conductors" who helped escaping slaves to freedom. Including real stories about "passengers" on the "Railroad," this book chronicles slaves' close calls with bounty hunters, exhausting struggles on the road, and what they sacrificed for freedom. With 80 black-and-white illustrations throughout and a sixteen-page black-and-white photo insert, the Underground Railroad comes alive!
Author | : Ellen Levine |
Publisher | : Scholastic Paperbacks |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780590451567 |
Answers questions about the background of the underground railroad, explains what it was like to be a slave, and describes the hardships faced by fugitive slaves.
Author | : Philip Wolny |
Publisher | : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 2004-01-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780823940080 |
Examines the events and key figures behind the formation and operation of the Underground Railroad, the secretive and illegal organization that helped American slaves escape to freedom in the northern United States and Canada.
Author | : Ann Malaspina |
Publisher | : Infobase Publishing |
Total Pages | : 153 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Abolitionists |
ISBN | : 1438131291 |
When the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 was passed by Congress, the flight to freedom for runaway slaves became even more dangerous. Even the free cities of Boston and Philadelphia were no longer safe, and abolitionists who despised slavery had to turn in fugitives. But the Underground Railroad, a secret and loosely organized network of people and safe houses that led slaves to freedom, only grew stronger. Since the late 1700s, blacks and whites had banded together to aid runaways like Maryland slave Frederick Douglass, who disguised himself as a sailor to board a train to New York. Virginia slave Henry Brown packed himself in a box to get to Philadelphia. The minister John Rankin, who hung a lantern to guide runaways to his house by the Ohio River, endured beatings for speaking against slavery. Quaker storeowner Thomas Garrett was put on trial for helping fugitives in Delaware. Meanwhile, the nation marched on toward Civil War. At its height, between 1810 and 1850, these secret routes and safe houses were used by an estimated 30,000 people escaping enslavement. In The Underground Railroad: The Journey to Freedom, read how this secret system worked in the days leading up to the Civil War and the pivotal role it played in the abolitionist movement.
Author | : William Still |
Publisher | : Good Press |
Total Pages | : 1433 |
Release | : 2024-01-18 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
"The Underground Railroad" chronicles the stories and methods of some 649 slaves who escaped to freedom via the Underground Railroad. Author, William Still included his carefully compiled and detailed documentation about those that he had helped escape into the pages of The Underground Railroad Records. William Still (1821-1902) was an African-American abolitionist in Philadelphia, conductor on the Underground Railroad, businessman, writer, historian and civil rights activist.
Author | : William Still |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2012-03-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 048613122X |
From a "conductor" who assisted runaway slaves in their flight to freedom, here is a collection of letters, newspaper articles, and firsthand accounts about refugees' narrow escapes and deadly struggles. Over 50 illustrations.
Author | : William Still |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 850 |
Release | : 1871 |
Genre | : Antislavery movements |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Mary Ellen Snodgrass |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 847 |
Release | : 2015-03-26 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1317454162 |
Provides a look at the network known as the Underground Railroad - that mysterious "system" of individuals and organizations that helped slaves escape the American South to freedom during the years before the Civil War. This work also explores the people, places, writings, laws, and organizations that made this network possible.